Patent 7334242 was granted and assigned to Alpine Electronics (company) on February, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for ejecting a disc includes the steps of conveying a disc back to a disc-holding position on a rotator by conveyor pulleys if an error occurs in an ejecting process of the disc, and subsequently performing a retry operation of the ejecting process. Specifically, the disc conveyed back to the disc-holding position is rotated by the rotator before restarting the ejecting process.